Origines Genealogicae; Or, The Sources Whence English Genealogies May be Traced from the Conquest to the Present Time: Accompanied by Specimens of Antient Records, Rolls, and Manuscripts, with Proofs of Their Genealogical Utility. Published Expressly for the Assistance of Claimants to Hereditary Titles, Honours, Or Estates |
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anno antient attainder Baronage Barony Bishop British Museum calendar Catalogue Chancery Chapter House Charles Clerk College of Arms comiti commence Committee of Privileges containing copies Coronation Court Crown D'ni death deeds descent Dugdale Earl Earl Marshal Edward III eidem Elizabeth England entries Escheator estates Exchequer fuit Gascony GENEALOGICAL UTILITY George grants Harl Harleian MSS heir Henry VIII House of Lords indexes Inquisitions inrolled John Katherine Bokenham King Knights lands Lansdowne MSS Library licence London manors marriage Minutes of Evidence names Norman Office parish Parliament Patent Rolls pedigree Peerage persons petitioner's Placita preserved Printed Minutes Privy Seal prove Public Records quod Regis registers regni reign of Edward reign of Henry Report on Public Richard Richard II Robert Rolls Chapel Roos Scutage Sir William Dugdale SPECIMENS Stafford statute Thomas Tower Tower of London transcripts vi.s viij.d Westminster Will'i writs XX.S
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Page 167 - Temple speaks (/), a sort of people in a condition of downright servitude, used and employed in the most servile works, and belonging, both they, their children and effects, to the lord of the soil, like the rest of the cattle or stock upon it.
Page 167 - For the good nature and benevolence of many lords of manors having, time out of mind, permitted their villeins and their children to enjoy their possessions without interruption, in a regular course of descent, the common law, of which custom is the life, now gave them title to prescribe against their lords ; and on performance of the same services, to hold their lands in spite of any determination of the lord's will. For though in general they are still said to hold their estates at the will of...
Page 167 - For though in general they are still said to hold their estates at the will of the lord, yet it is such a will as is agreeable to the custom of the manor...
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Page 183 - I.), in delivering the opinion of the judges to the House of Lords on the disputed succession to the earldom of Oxford, after having alluded to the rank of the De Veres for above five centuries, stated by way of commendation, that he found but two attainders of that noble family in all that length of time.